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Free Download Omololu Michael Fagbadebo, Dhikru Adewale Yagboyaju, Ebenezer Oluwole Oni, "Democratic Practice and Governance in Nigeria"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 036790036X | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.3 mb
This book examines the challenges confronting the practice of democracy and governance in Nigeria.

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Free Download Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, "Democracy Promotion in the EU's Neighbourhood: From Leverage to Governance?"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415523117, 113810986X | EPUB | pages: 186 | 1.3 mb
EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on 'linkage', i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and 'leverage', i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of democracy promotion which rests in functional cooperation between administrations. This volume comparatively defines and assesses these three models of external democracy promotion in the EU's relations with its eastern and southern neighbours. It argues that while 'linkage' has hitherto failed to produce tangible outcomes, and the success of 'leverage' has basically been tied to an EU membership perspective, the 'governance' model of democracy promotion bears greater potential beyond the circle of candidate countries. This third approach, while not tackling the core institutions of the political system as such, but rather promoting transparency, accountability, and participation at the level of state administration, may turn out to remain the EU's most tangible form of democratic governance promotion in the future.

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by Primož Gabrijelčič
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1805125877 | 452 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.43 MB

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Free Download Oliver Bennett, "Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations: Volume I"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367661209, 0367189984 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 1.3 mb
This book is the first in a dedicated series that explores questions of cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations.

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Free Download Howard J. Wiarda, "Corporatism And National Development In Latin America"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367168383, 0367018519, 0865310319 | EPUB | pages: 382 | 1.3 mb
This book emphasizes the necessity of coming to grips with historic and contemporary corporatism in order to fully comprehend Latin American and Iberian development on its own terms and in its own sociopolitical context.

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Free Download Jeremy Leaman, Stuart Parkes, "Contemporary Germany: Essays and Texts on Politics, Economics & Society"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0582357144 | EPUB | pages: 442 | 1.3 mb
Designed for combined Language and Social Science 2nd and 3rd year courses on Germany found in departments of, German, Politics, Modern Language and European Studies. This book charts the post-war development of Germany - East & West - through to reunification and Germany's evolving role in world politics and economics. It combines a concise yet comprehensive introduction in English to contemporary German politics, society & economics with extensive authentic extracts from German language publications backed up with specially developed language exercises

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Free Download Computational Design of Engineering Materials: Fundamentals and Case Studies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108494102 | 503 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
Introducing state-of-the art computational methods, this book combines detailed explanations with real-world case studies to give a full grounding in the design of engineering materials. This book presents a wide spectrum of key computational methods, such as CALPHAD-method, first-principles calculations, phase-field simulation and finite element analysis, covering the atomic-meso-macro scale range. The reader will see these methods applied to case studies for steel, light alloys, superalloys, cemented carbides, hard coating and energy materials, demonstrating in detail how real-world materials are designed. Online ancillary material includes input files for computational design software, providing the reader with hands-on design experience. Step-by-step instructions will allow you to perform and repeat the simulations discussed in the book. Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students as well as non-specialist researchers in materials science and engineering, including ceramics, metallurgy, and chemistry, this is an ideal introductory and reference book.

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Free Download Salmon A Shomade, "Colonial Legacies and the Rule of Law in Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367370336, 1032186747 | EPUB | pages: 246 | 1.3 mb
This book focuses on the continued impact of British colonial legacy on the rule of law in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

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Free Download John A. Kroll, "Closure In International Politics"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367167395, 0813389380 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.3 mb
Openness in the international economy happens when countries employ the commercial policies needed to mould free trade into an outcome that serves their national interests. With this conclusion, John Kroll challenges previous attempts to explain movements between free trade and economic closure solely in terms of domestic politics, international distributions of power, or market crises. He demonstrates that the final outcome of economic cooperation or conflict is more complex, determined both by the anarchical structure of international politics and by the policies nations employ to cope with that anarchy. Establishing a theoretical framework that links commercial policies to systemic outcomes, Kroll is able to offer a unique solution to the current debates over trade policy. He takes the major elements of that debate such as calls for aggressive reciprocity, enhanced multilateralism, and expanded trading blocs and establishes how and why each of these policies can influence the stability or instability of free trade systems. Kroll reviews how the GATT has enhanced free trade in the past by institutionalizing some of those policies and explains how GATTs failure to implement other policies will leave it ill equipped to handle future challenges. Kroll combines trade theory and recent works on anarchical cooperation, thereby responding to two recent admonitions in the international relations literature: He eschews ad hoc hypotheses in favor of ones derived from deductive models, and he moves game theory analysis beyond modelling and into the derivation of falsifiable propositions. In the latter book chapters, the author tests his proposition against a case study of British and German behavior during the collapse of free trade in the late nineteenth century.

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Free Download Robert M. Page, "Clear Blue Water?: The Conservative Party and the Welfare State since 1940"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1847429866 | EPUB | pages: 212 | 1.3 mb
Has the modern Conservative Party developed a distinctive approach to the post-war welfare state? In exploring this question, this accessible book takes an authoritative look at Conservative Party policy and practice in the modern era. The book takes as its main starting point the progressive One Nation Conservative (1950-64) perspective, which endeavoured to embrace those features of the welfare state deemed compatible with the party's underlying 'philosophy'. Attention then shifts to the neo-liberal Conservatives (1974-97), who sought to reverse the forward march of the welfare state on the grounds of its 'harmful' economic and social effects. Finally, David Cameron's (2005-present day) 'progressive' neo-liberal Conservative welfare state strategy is put under the spotlight. The book's time-defined content and broad historical thread make it a valuable resource for academics and students in social policy and politics as well as social history.

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